America Quote by Padgett Powell Download Open image “I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.” — Padgett Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Knows Trapped
I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving.… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
America is a huge country, filled with great tracts of open land. If you're not careful, you can get lost in it - lost… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Generally, I think America is America. America has been through suffering like other countries, but America will come up. I have no doubt. It's… — Ivana Trump Copy Share Image
I feel like there's always a lot of curiosity about what happens in America. — Channing Dungey Copy Share Image
Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook… — Joe Dempsie Copy Share Image
I'm not going to waste my time trying 'break' America, you know what I mean? Too many people have died trying to break America.… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs.… — padgett powell Copy Share Image
Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech, had been… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“A whole section of the family tree is pruned and primped and assessed as I politely sit there. Overall, I detect that the tree… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image